Legend Big Red 4, Руководство пользователя

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Their Design
Congratulations on your excellent choice! The Big Red 4 loudspeakers have been
designed to give maximum enjoyment when you listen to your music, whatever that
type of music may be.
They have state of the art electronic and acoustic components synergistically
combined using extensive theoretical knowledge as well as industrial experience.
And although our methods also include sophisticated computer design &
measurement systems, the final decisions have always been made by that most
sensitive of musical test instruments, the human ear, only after extensive listening to
all sorts of music.
Our goal has been to recreate live music in your home. By maximising the flatness
and equality of output of a pair of Big Red 4 loudspeakers, we preserve the true tones
of instruments in a wide and deep soundstage. And by minimising distortion and
energy storage, both electrical and mechanical, the Big Red 4s reproduce the foot-
tapping speed and emotional impact of a live concert.
Your Hifi System
Because the Big Red 4s are so transparent to musical signals fed to them, their
performance will be limited by the quality of the other components in your hifi
system. There is no heirachy of importance of hifi components because the saying
‘garbage in, garbage out’ applies to each and every component. The hifi chain is only
as strong as its weakest link - and with the Big Red 4s, loudspeakers are no longer the
weak link. We therefore recommend that you use the Big Red 4s with the highest
quality other components in your hi-fi system.
All components in the system should be mounted on very stable & isolated platforms
and connected with good quality cables.
Connecting up the speakers
The top mid & treble drivers have passive crossovers and so are connected to your
amplifiers in the usual manner. You can use a single speaker cable to do this in
which case you should use the lower pair of black/red pair of terminals at the top of
the back of the speaker. However we recommend removing the brass bars between
the terminals on the terminal plate and connecting the mid and treble terminals with
separate wires back to your amplifier (biwiring) as in the figure of the next page.
The bass units has its own built-in amplifier, a 300W BASH (Bridged Amplifier
Symmetrical Hybrid) which as its name suggests is a hybrid design combining the
best of analog and digital technology. It has a tracking digital power supply for very
rigid supply rails yet low wasted power - combined with an analog class A/B
amplifier for deep, tight and musical bass. The signal is provided to this bass amp
module by a lead inside the cabinet connecting the lower (mid-range) inputs on the
upper terminal plate to the BASH amp module. You should therefore NOT make a
separate outside connection to the BASH amp.